Make sure that processor is a Northwood, not Prescott (is that what the C in 3.0C means?). Also, if you plan to do any overclocking, you'll want a nicer board than the Intel one. I recommend the Asus P4P800 series.

I got a 3700BQE thinking that it would be really quiet, but I ended up replacing the PSU with a Seasonic rev A3. The stock PSU starts out quiet, but the thermally-controlled fan ramps up to a fairly high speed pretty eagerly under load and it is definitely NOT quiet in this state.

Yes I know you can't overclock an intel motherboard. I thought about that when choosing, and I decided that i don't want to monkey with it anyways. for the applications i'll be running, processor speed is only a secondary concern. realistically, i could get by with a 1.5GHz processor so long as the bus speed, mem speed, and hd speeds were not effected. i'll be running raid 0 on 2 160GB drives. main application i'll use will be adobe audition which is an audio recording/mixing program.

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